Arnold Reisman

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Arnold Reisman (born August 2, 1934) is an American engineer, historian and author living in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Arnold Reisman was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1934. He came to the United States after World War II and graduated from New York's Stuyvesant Height School of Math and Science in 1951. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California, Wisconsin, and Ohio, and has published over 200 papers in refereed professional journals, along with 14 books. Reisman served 27 years as Professor of Operations Research at Case Western Reserve University. In 1994, Reisman sued CWRU for age discrimination, and contract violation. He settled with the university and was bought out of his tenured position at CWRU for $350,000 in 1994. During 1999-2003, he was an invited Visiting Scholar in Turkey at both Sabanci University, and the Istanbul Technical University. His current research interests are technology transfer, epistemology, meta research, and most recently, the history of German-speaking professors who, starting in 1933, were exiled from their homelands by the Third Reich, found sanctuary and work in the Republic of Turkey, and had a phenomenal impact on science in general and Turkish universities in particular. Reisman is also actively pursuing his lifelong interest in sculpting. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, American Men and Women of Science, and Two Thousand Notable Americans, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He is the author of the history book, Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision.

Reisman details significant events that occurred in Turkish history in the 1930's and impacted the world in ways that could not be predicted.

This is a little-known chapter in the history of Jews in Europe. The Republic of Turkey invited Central European Jewish scientists, educators and doctors who were fleeing the persecution in their homelands to move, live, work and find safe refuge within Turkish borders. Turkey was looking for ways to improve conditions in its educational system, as well as various medical fields and progress past the remains of the Ottoman Empire. These luminaries were able to continue their research there. Few remained, most came to the US and catapulted America's science, humanities, and mathematics, to new heights. Some went to what is now the State of Israel and the older ones returned to Germany so that they could recoup their pension rights. In the process they helped de-Nazify Germany's post-war universities.

This book describes in detail the tales of these scholars and records their experiences via archival documents, correspondence, memoirs, and oral histories.

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• Reisman, Arnold. Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Ataturk's Vision / Arnold Reisman. Washington, DC : New Academia Pub., LLC, 2006. ISBN 0-9777908-8-6
• Reisman, Arnold. Management science knowledge : its creation, generalization, and consolidation / Arnold Reisman. Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 1992. xvi, 305 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN 0-89930-739-6 (alk. paper)
• Reisman, Arnold. Materials management for health services / Arnold Reisman. Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, c1981. xxi, 488 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-669-03458-4
• Reisman, Arnold. Health care delivery planning. Edited by Arnold Reisman and Marylou Kiley. New York, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers [1973] x, 374 p. illus. 24 cm. ISBN 0-677-04570-0, 9 hard cover), ISBN 0-677-04575-1 (pbk.)

Arnold Reisman, ( 1987) Enfoque de Sistemas en la Administracion de Materiales en Hospitals, Washington, D.C., Pan American Health Organization, PNSP/83-36, 160 pages, 1983. Second Edition

Arnold and Ellen Reisman, ( 1982) Welcome Tomorrow, North Coast Publishing Co., 175 pages,

Jon D. Clark and Arnold Reisman, (1981) Computer System Selection: An Integrated Approach, Praeger Publishers, 220 pages,

Arnold Reisman, (1979) Systems Analysis in Health-Care Delivery, Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass. 311 pages

Arnold Reisman and A.K. Rao, (1973) Discounted Cash Flow Analysis: Stochastic Extensions, American Institute of Industrial Engineers, Monograph Series, 272 pages

M.D. Mesarovic and Arnold Reisman (1972), (eds.), Systems Approach and the City, North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 480 pages, 1972.

Arnold Reisman, (1972) Burton V. Dean, Muhittin Oral, Michael Salvador, Industrial Inventory Control, Gordon and Breach, New York, 180 pages,

Arnold Reisman, (1970) Managerial & Engineering Economics, Allyn & Bacon Publishing Company of Boston, 531 pages